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    Kamidana (神棚, lit. 'god/spirit-shelf') are miniature household altars provided to enshrine a Shinto kami. They are most commonly found in Japan, the home...
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    Shimenawa (section Kamidana)
    rice-cakes. The purpose of the kazari is to bring good fortune to people. Kamidana are a reduced version of shimenawa used in daily life, and are thought...
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    go-shinsatsu (御神札) or shinpu (神符), are often placed on household Shinto altars (kamidana) and revered both as a symbol of the shrine and its deity (or deities)...
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    of nature and prominent landscape locations. The kami are worshipped at kamidana household shrines, family shrines, and jinja public shrines. The latter...
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    Japan. They are usually found adorning doorways, shrine buildings, and kamidana. The origins of shide are traced to the yūshide, a thread made from the...
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    artifacts. The term kamiza means "place of honor" and a related term, kamidana refers to the shrine itself. Other artifacts may be displayed throughout...
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    Shrines recommends every household have at least three Ofuda in their Kamidana, a Jingu Taima, an Ujigami ofuda, and another deity one personally chooses...
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    butsudan ownership can often fall below 60%. Gohonzon (Nichiren Buddhism) Kamidana – analogous concept in Shinto Spirit house Reader (1995:55) notes: "Over...
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    house. Nowadays they are usually placed in a household Shinto altar, or kamidana. They are also placed in the tokonoma, a small decorated alcove in the...
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    abundance around this time. A kagami mochi is placed on family altars (kamidana) on December 28 each year. Kagami mochi is a New Year's decoration, which...
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    be photographed. Many, though increasingly fewer households maintain a kamidana or a small Shinto altar shelf. The Shinto version of the kitchen god is...
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  • locations, are thought to be home to the kami. The kami are worshipped at kamidana household shrines, family shrines, and jinja public shrines. The Ryukyuan...
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    A Shinto Kamidana (household altar) in Japan. Note the shimenawa, a rope demarking the sanctuary area seen above, along the ceiling....
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  • dividing a Shinto kami to be re-enshrined somewhere else (such as a house's kamidana), and the spirit itself produced by the division. Shrines conduct bunrei...
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    for use in Buddhist ceremonies; and many also have Shinto shrines, or kamidana (神棚). When a death occurs, the shrine is closed and covered with white...
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    Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty, Snoopy, Kewpie, etc. Ema (Shinto) Kanai Anzen Kamidana Koban Magatama Netsuke Ofuda Fulu Tanzaku Thai Buddha amulet Somin Shōrai...
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    butsudan. Their value are also below that of the more highly respected kamidana. The mitamaya is placed in an inner chamber, on a shelf, the mitama-san-no-tana...
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    as fetishes, and were respectfully placed and kept in household altars (kamidana). Made and used by the BaKongo of western DRC, a nkisi (plural minkisi)...
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    A Kaharingan mininature shrine, similar to the Japanese Kamidana...
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  • kamidana cannot be installed in the highest point of the house, the Kanji for 'Cloud' is written on a piece of paper and affixed above the kamidana;...
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    hexagonal jar, flowering plant and phoenix design in overglaze enamel Kamidana (home shrine) with kagamimochi and ofuda Daruma of various sizes Hamaya...
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  • conclusion.: 197  Shinto practitioners also worship at home. This is done at a kamidana (household shrine), on which an ofuda with the name of their protector...
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    "family kami" (氏神 ujigami). Many Japanese houses still have a shrine (kamidana, kami shelf) where offerings are made to ancestral kami, as well as to...
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    ships, there is a Shinto Kamidana (神棚, God-shelf, lit). Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships also often contain a Kamidana. In the Netherlands, there...
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    the house from fires. Other common yorishiro are the small altar called kamidana and the butsudan, which is an altar for the dead. (Butsudan were originally...
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    is 32 m and 4.39 m across at chest height. The hollow is 10 tatami width and contains a small Kamidana. (Click to see the men standing in the hollow.)...
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    "food offering") are offerings of foods given up to Shinto shrines or kamidana in Japan. The annual festivals carried out at different times of the year...
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    O-Bon Setsubun Tanabata Furnishings Butsudan Byōbu Chabudai Furo Futon Kamidana Kotatsu Ikebana Sudare Tansu Toilets in Japan Zabuton Minka Rooms Japanese...
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    window-side, followed by the aisle seat and then the middle seat.[citation needed] Butsudan Etiquette in Japan Kamidana Tokonoma Order of precedence v t e...
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    shrines were established in Taiwan. Chinese family altars were replaced with kamidana and butsudan, and a Japanese calendar of religious festivals was introduced...
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